Art, Spirituality, Meditation, Donegal, Ireland. Artwork, Painting, Printmaking, Etching, Poetry, Sculpture and Photography by Aoife Valley

Tree Flower

Selection of Poems

The Stranger
The Circle
Zero
The Butterfly
Salt Dog
The Old Bees
Empty Page
Chamomile
The Fall
Swim
Soil
Autumn Winds
Insomnia haiku
Beauty Broke
Poem To Ease
Two Candles
Swollen River
Innocence
Night Shower
Whole
Nature
Point of Blue
Gone
Emptying
Turning Point
Mary
In Caves
Morning Snow
Poet
The Path
The Virgin of the Abused
Snake Medicine
Intact
Black Tree
Disappearing Trace
Fine Spider Web

The Bull

Tea-sets painted
With cottage garden flowers,
After horns and hooves
In pieces on the floor.

Every whisper of beauty,
Formed by tiny hands,
Smashed by The Bull
In its chaos.

The bull and beauty
Share the same house,
Until one day,
Wisdom comes,

To sweep up debris,
To tame the suffering bull,
And let the children play,
Painting tea-sets all day.